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Nagios XI vs Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
7.3
Nagios XI support is professional and prompt, though costly, with comprehensive resources lessening the need for direct assistance.
Sentiment score
8.7
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring support is generally effective and professional, though some users experience slower response times and integration challenges.
 

Room For Improvement

Sentiment score
3.9
Nagios XI requires better integration, user interface, documentation, and enhanced features for easier setup and improved management capabilities.
Sentiment score
5.8
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring needs better tool integration, scalability, affordability, user interface, support, stability, data handling, and external product compatibility.
 

Scalability Issues

No sentiment score available
Nagios XI is scalable for various environments, but complex performance and limited documentation challenge extensive infrastructures.
Sentiment score
8.1
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is praised for scalability and flexibility, though some users note high costs with scaling.
 

Setup Cost

No sentiment score available
Nagios XI offers cost-effective monitoring with free and paid versions, though enterprise deployment may involve complex licensing and higher costs.
Sentiment score
4.5
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is valued for capabilities but considered costly due to data volume-based pricing and annual payments.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.5
Nagios XI is stable with minimal performance issues, requiring occasional tweaks, and is ideal for large-scale infrastructure monitoring.
Sentiment score
8.4
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is highly stable, consistently achieving user ratings of eight to ten, with minor fixable issues.
 

Valuable Features

Sentiment score
8.5
Nagios XI provides customizable, scalable monitoring with extensive plugin support, real-time insights, and integration, improving user experience and flexibility.
Sentiment score
8.0
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring offers extensive integration, rapid searches, dynamic dashboards, and real-time issue resolution across diverse infrastructures.
 

Categories and Ranking

Nagios XI
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
12th
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
16th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.1
Number of Reviews
57
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (13th), Server Monitoring (8th)
Splunk Infrastructure Monit...
Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring
10th
Ranking in Cloud Monitoring Software
10th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
32
Ranking in other categories
Container Management (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Nagios XI is 4.0%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is 0.7%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
 

Featured Reviews

FakhruddinLokhandwala - PeerSpot reviewer
A simple monitoring tool that is scalable and stable
Nagios XI doesn't provide scripting. For example, if we have built up multiple IPX tunnels from a base location to a data center location and want to monitor or trigger an alert if the tunnel goes down, Nagios XI does not automatically send alerts notifying us that the tunnel is down. This is a feature we want, and in the past, Nagios completed scripting for us, but it didn't work out well. In addition, Nagios XI doesn't have a feature where we can push the configuration from the server to all our devices. For example, if there are 500 devices in our network and we need to write down a simple command like a show clock or want to write the configuration, we cannot execute this command on all of our devices. We have already raised this issue with Nagios, and they told us they would speak with the BU team to see if this can be applied in the next release. If they do, it will come with an additional license. Another feature we want is the IP SLA Tracking in Cisco. For example, if our ISP connection is traversing through an L2 point, which is a layer two point, we don't have IP-to-IP communication to track those interfaces. So if we need to implement something end-to-end and the interface goes down, we should get alerts for that. And if the interface goes down, there should be specific behaviour so that our traffic can switch over from the LAN or the WAN. That is not in the current Nagios deployment, but they have advised they are working on it.
Rodney Riettie - PeerSpot reviewer
Helps to ingest a massive amount of raw data and use it effectively
A lot of customers had a hard time effectively searching within the data in Splunk. There is a learning curve from searches to indexes and using all the macros that we have created. It is a little difficult for somebody who has not used it quite a bit and does not have a lot of practice with it, but the AI features that we have been hearing about through Splunk will make it a lot easier for us to use human language to search this data. That is big. That is pretty powerful, and that will help a lot with our customers. At the Splunk conference, some of the talks have been about the AI platform and more effective and easier ways to search within Splunk through indexes and other things. These features will help correct some of the things with which we are having a hard time with some of our customers.
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Comparison Review

it_user174738 - PeerSpot reviewer
May 31, 2015
Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor
I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
59%
Computer Software Company
7%
Financial Services Firm
5%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
9%
Manufacturing Company
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Nagios XI?
It is an open-source platform with valuable features for performance and stability.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nagios XI?
Nagios XI is an expensive solution. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten.
What needs improvement with Nagios XI?
From an alerting point of view, some graphics and metrics don't work properly with Nagios XI as they do with Checkmk. The solution's scalability, pricing, stability, and support could be improved. ...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring?
Licensing cost is the biggest argument I get from those divesting from Splunk. There are those within our organization who say we are going to go to other tools since Splunk is too expensive. Till ...
What needs improvement with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring?
We never had any issues when it comes to the type of use cases we are using it for. We did not need more advancement on it, but I know that, in general, everything can be updated. There are tiny li...
 

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Splunk Insights for Infrastructure
 

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Sample Customers

Nagios has over one million users globally, including AOL, DHL, McAfee, MCI, MTV, Yahoo!, Universal, Toshiba, Sony, Siemens, and JPMorgan Chase.
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